10Gb/s Intra-Chip Compact Electro-Optical Interconnect

We demonstrate a digital-to-optical-to-digital link operating at 10 Gb/s with 2.4 pJ/b below 10
^-9
BER enabled by zero-change CMOS macros. All necessary electronic-photonic circuits are contained within 0.015 mm
²
of silicon area.